Colorado · Nonprofit
BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION
BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,061 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $446k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $513k
- Net assets
- $-313728
What Boulder Chamber Foundation does
Mission
The Boulder Chamber Foundation (bcf) leads the charitable and education objectives of the boulder chamber of commerce (bcc) and promotes economic development and quality of life for the greater boulder region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Support of boulder area small businesses.
$17,582 spentof which $364 as grants3% of program spendingEducation and job training, diversified and affordable housing, and transportation options.
$499,979 spent$316,634 earned by the program97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $517,561.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $82k to $385k (+369%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 27% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kate Brown
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $88k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 36% · 2021 51% · 2022 37% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
92% of BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $39k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $475k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Boulder Chamber of Commerce · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,061 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $513,061 in grants to BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOULDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing